Scientific Reports Table of Contents e-alert: 1 October 2013

01 October 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Just one of many high-quality articles from Frontiers in Chemistry: Forty years of Clar's aromatic pi-sextet rule In this review, Miquel Solà selects some particular examples to highlight the achievement of Clar's aromatic pi-sextet rule in many situations and discusses two recent successful cases of its application.         Jump to the content that matters to you ▼ Biological Sciences   ▼ Chemical Sciences   ▼ Physical Sciences   ▼ Earth & Environmental Sciences   ▼ Health Sciences               Biological Sciences ▲ top               Olfactory imprinting is triggered by MHC peptide ligands ▶     Cornelia Hinz, ri Namekawa, Jasminca Behrmann-Godel et al.     Olfactory imprinting on environmental, population- and kin-specific cues is a specific form of life-long memory promoting homing of salmon to their natal rivers and the return of …             Inhibition of the hypoxia-inducible factor pathway by a G-quadruplex binding small molecule ▶     Sarah J. Welsh, Aaron G. Dale, Caterina M. Lombardo et al.     The hypoxia-inducible transcription factor (HIF) co-ordinates the response of tumours to low oxygen by stimulating genes involved in metabolism and angiogenesis. HIF pathway …             In situ label-free imaging for visualizing the biotransformation of a bioactive polyphenol ▶     Yoon Hee Kim, Yoshinori Fujimura, Takatoki Hagihara et al.     Although understanding the high-resolution spatial distribution of bioactive small molecules is indispensable for elucidating their biological or pharmacological effects, there …             Interaction between the transcriptional corepressor Sin3B and voltage-gated sodium channels modulates functional channel expression ▶     Ana V. Vega, Guillermo Avila, Gary Matthews     Proteins that interact with voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channels are important in channel sorting and modulation. In this study, we identified the transcriptional regulator, Sin3B, …             Metabolic Characterization of a Sirt5 deficient mouse model ▶     Jiujiu Yu, Sushabhan Sadhukhan, Lilia G. Noriega et al.     Sirt5, localized in the mitochondria, is a member of sirtuin family of NAD-dependent deacetylases. Sirt5 was shown to deacetylate and activate carbamoyl phosphate synthase 1. Most …             Nuclear targeting of dystroglycan promotes the expression of androgen regulated transcription factors in prostate cancer ▶     G. Mathew, A. Mitchell, J. M. Down et al.     Dystroglycan is frequently lost in adenocarcinoma, but the mechanisms and consequences are poorly understood. We report an analysis of β-dystroglycan in prostate cancer in human …             A serotonin-induced N-glycan switch regulates platelet aggregation ▶     Charles P. Mercado, Maritza V. Quintero, Yicong Li et al.     Serotonin (5-HT) is a multifunctional signaling molecule that plays different roles in a concentration-dependent manner. We demonstrated that elevated levels of plasma 5-HT …             Multiple genetic origins of histidine-rich protein 2 gene deletion in Plasmodium falciparum parasites from Peru ▶     Sheila Akinyi, Tonya Hayden, Dionicia Gamboa et al.     The majority of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) detect Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 (PfHRP2), encoded by the pfhrp2 gene. Recently, P. falciparum isolates …             Controlling Cellular Uptake of Nanoparticles with pH-Sensitive Polymers ▶     Hong-ming Ding, Yu-qiang Ma     The major challenge in cancer therapy is to efficiently translocate drug molecules into cancer tumors without doing any damage to healthy tissues. Since there exist pH gradients …             Chromosome position at the spindle equator is regulated by chromokinesin and a bipolar microtubule array ▶     Jun Takagi, Takeshi Itabashi, Kazuya Suzuki et al.     The chromosome alignment is mediated by polar ejection and poleward forces acting on the chromosome arm and kinetochores, respectively. Although components of the motile machinery …             Penguin tissue as a proxy for relative krill abundance in East Antarctica during the Holocene ▶     Tao Huang, Liguang Sun, Nanye Long et al.     Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a key component of the Southern Ocean food web. It supports a large number of upper trophic-level predators, and is also a major fishery …             Medium-term Outcomes of Cemented Prostheses and Cementless Modular Prostheses in Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty ▶     Long Wang, Pengfei Lei, Jie Xie et al.     There is an increasing trend towards cementless modular femoral prostheses for revision hip replacement surgery, especially in patients with severe proximal femoral bone defects. …             Development and validation of a lifetime exposure questionnaire for use among Chinese populations ▶     ShengHui Wu, Suzanne C. Ho, Tsz-ping Lam et al.     The sunlight exposure questionnaire for use in the Chinese population was constructed based on extensive literature review and item suitability for measuring life-time exposure. …             Culture-dependent and independent approaches for identifying novel halogenases encoded by Crambe crambe (marine sponge) microbiota ▶     Başak Öztürk, Lenny de Jaeger, Hauke Smidt et al.     Sponges harbour microbial communities that contribute to the genetic and metabolic potential of their host. Among metabolites produced by sponge-associated microbial communities, …             α-Helical Structures Drive Early Stages of Self-Assembly of Amyloidogenic Amyloid Polypeptide Aggregate Formation in Membranes ▶     Martina Pannuzzo, Antonio Raudino, Danilo Milardi et al.     The human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) is the primary component in the toxic islet amyloid deposits in type-2 diabetes. hIAPP self-assembles to aggregates that permeabilize …             Density dependence in Caenorhabditis larval starvation ▶     Alexander B. Artyukhin, Frank C. Schroeder, Leon Avery     Availability of food is often a limiting factor in nature. Periods of food abundance are followed by times of famine, often in unpredictable patterns. Reliable information about …             Autologous transplantation of GDNF-expressing mesenchymal stem cells protects against MPTP-induced damage in cynomolgus monkeys ▶     Zhenhua Ren, Jiayin Wang, Shuyan Wang et al.     Glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) has shown beneficial effects in models of Parkinson's disease. The mild results observed in the double-blind clinical trial by …             Endocrine Protection of Ischemic Myocardium by FGF21 from the Liver and Adipose Tissue ▶     Shu Q. Liu, Derek Roberts, Alexei Kharitonenkov et al.     Myocardial ischemia, while causing cardiomyocyte injury, can activate innate protective processes, enhancing myocardial tolerance to ischemia. Such processes are present in not …             The CCHamide 1 receptor modulates sensory perception and olfactory behavior in starved Drosophila ▶     Abu Farhan, Jyotasana Gulati, Ewald Groβe-Wilde et al.     The olfactory response of the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster to food odor is modulated by starvation. Here we show that this modulation is not restricted to food odors and …             Metabolic Profiling Framework for Discovery of Candidate Diagnostic Markers of Malaria ▶     Lucienne Tritten, Jennifer Keiser, Markus Godejohann et al.     Despite immense efforts to combat malaria in tropical and sub-tropical regions, the potency of this vector-borne disease and its status as a major driver of morbidity and …             The mitochondrial Na+-Ca2+ exchanger, NCLX, regulates automaticity of HL-1 cardiomyocytes ▶     Ayako Takeuchi, Bongju Kim, Satoshi Matsuoka     Mitochondrial Ca2 is known to change dynamically, regulating mitochondrial as well as cellular functions such as energy metabolism and apoptosis. The NCLX gene encodes the …             Assignment of the Q-Bands of the Chlorophylls: Coherence Loss via Qx − Qy Mixing ▶     Jeffrey R. Reimers, Zheng-Li Cai, Rika Kobayashi et al.     We provide a new and definitive spectral assignment for the absorption, emission, high-resolution fluorescence excitation, linear dichroism, and/or magnetic circular dichroism …             Exceptional preservation of Palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum ▶     Ines Melendez, Kliti Grice, Lorenz Schwark     The occurrence of intact sterols has been restricted to immature Cretaceous (~125 Ma) sediments with one report from the Late Jurassic (~165 Ma). Here we report the oldest …             Direct visualization and quantitative analysis of water diffusion in complex biological tissues using CARS microscopy ▶     Ying-Chun Yu, Yoshiro Sohma, Shinichi Takimoto et al.     To date, it has not been possible to measure microscopic diffusive water movements in epithelia and in the interstitial space of complex tissues and organs. Diffusive water …             Prediction stability in a data-based, mechanistic model of σF regulation during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis ▶     Georgios Fengos, Dagmar Iber     Mathematical modeling of biological networks can help to integrate a large body of information into a consistent framework, which can then be used to arrive at novel mechanistic …             The intrinsic microglial molecular clock controls synaptic strength via the circadian expression of cathepsin S ▶     Yoshinori Hayashi, Satoru Koyanagi, Naoki Kusunose et al.     Microglia are thought to play important roles in the maintenance of neuronal circuitry and the regulation of behavior. We found that the cortical microglia contain an intrinsic …             Complexity and diversity of eyes in Early Cambrian ecosystems ▶     Fangchen Zhao, David J. Bottjer, Shixue Hu et al.     Here we report exceptionally preserved non-biomineralized compound eyes of a non-trilobite arthropod Cindarella eucalla from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, China. The …             Lab on a Biomembrane: Rapid prototyping and manipulation of 2D fluidic lipid bilayers circuits ▶     Alar Ainla, Irep Gözen, Bodil Hakonen et al.     Lipid bilayer membranes are among the most ubiquitous structures in the living world, with intricate structural features and a multitude of biological functions. It is attractive …             Green Tea Extract Containing a Highly Absorbent Catechin Prevents Diet-Induced Lipid Metabolism Disorder ▶     Takashi Suzuki, Motofumi Kumazoe, Yoonhee Kim et al.     We investigated the effects of extracts of Benifuuki (a tea cultivar that contains methylated catechins such as epigallocatechin-3-O-(3-O-methyl) gallate (EGCG3”Me)) in mice fed a …             UV induced visual cues in grasses ▶     Sabulal Baby, Anil John Johnson, Balaji Govindan et al.     Grasses are traditionally considered as wind pollinated, however, field observations confirmed frequent insect visits to grass flowers, suggesting insect pollination. Fruit and …             Profiling the Impact of Medium Formulation on Morphology and Functionality of Primary Hepatocytes in vitro ▶     Leonard J. Nelson, Philipp Treskes, A. Forbes Howie et al.     The characterization of fully-defined in vitro hepatic culture systems requires testing of functional and morphological variables to obtain the optimal trophic support, …             An impedance-based integrated biosensor for suspended DNA characterization ▶     Hanbin Ma, Richard W. R. Wallbank, Reza Chaji et al.     Herein, we describe a novel integrated biosensor for performing dielectric spectroscopy to analyze biological samples. We analyzed biomolecule samples with different …             Regulation of the expression of the liver cancer susceptibility gene MICA by microRNAs ▶     Takahiro Kishikawa, Motoyuki Otsuka, Takeshi Yoshikawa et al.     Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a threat to public health worldwide. We previously identified the association of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at the promoter region of …                 Nature Communications is ranked #3 in the Multidisciplinary Sciences with an Impact Factor of 10.015* Your research. Our reach. Together we make an impact.  nature.com/naturecommunications  *2012 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2013)         Chemical Sciences ▲ top               Mineral-Coated Polymer Membranes with Superhydrophilicity and Underwater Superoleophobicity for Effective Oil/Water Separation ▶     Peng-Cheng Chen, Zhi-Kang Xu     Oil-polluted water is a worldwide problem due to the increasing industrial oily wastewater and the frequent oil spill accidents. Here, we report a novel kind of superhydrophilic …             Size and space controlled hexagonal arrays of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanodots: magnetic studies and application ▶     Tandra Ghoshal, Tuhin Maity, Ramsankar Senthamaraikannan et al.     Highly dense hexagonally arranged iron oxide nanodots array were fabricated using PS-b-PEO self-assembled patterns. The copolymer molecular weight, composition and choice of …             Highly Efficient Bienzyme Functionalized Nanocomposite-Based Microfluidics Biosensor Platform for Biomedical Application ▶     Md. Azahar Ali, Saurabh Srivastava, Pratima R. Solanki et al.     This report describes the fabrication of a novel microfluidics nanobiochip based on a composite comprising of nickel oxide nanoparticles (nNiO) and multiwalled carbon nanotubes …             α-Helical Structures Drive Early Stages of Self-Assembly of Amyloidogenic Amyloid Polypeptide Aggregate Formation in Membranes ▶     Martina Pannuzzo, Antonio Raudino, Danilo Milardi et al.     The human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) is the primary component in the toxic islet amyloid deposits in type-2 diabetes. hIAPP self-assembles to aggregates that permeabilize …             Hierarchical LiFePO4 with a controllable growth of the (010) facet for lithium-ion batteries ▶     Binbin Guo, Hongcheng Ruan, Cheng Zheng et al.     Hierarchically structured LiFePO4 was successfully synthesized by ionic liquid solvothermal method. These hierarchically structured LiFePO4 samples were constructed from …             Photoluminescence from Amino-Containing Polymer in the Presence of CO2: Carbamato Anion Formed as a Fluorophore ▶     Xiaoyong Pan, Guan Wang, Chee Leng Lay et al.     Organic photoluminescent materials are important to many applications especially for diagnosis and detection, and most of organic photoluminescent materials contain fluorophores …             Assignment of the Q-Bands of the Chlorophylls: Coherence Loss via Qx − Qy Mixing ▶     Jeffrey R. Reimers, Zheng-Li Cai, Rika Kobayashi et al.     We provide a new and definitive spectral assignment for the absorption, emission, high-resolution fluorescence excitation, linear dichroism, and/or magnetic circular dichroism …             Exceptional preservation of Palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum ▶     Ines Melendez, Kliti Grice, Lorenz Schwark     The occurrence of intact sterols has been restricted to immature Cretaceous (~125 Ma) sediments with one report from the Late Jurassic (~165 Ma). Here we report the oldest …             Rapid fabrication of self-ordered porous alumina with 10-/sub-10-nm-scale nanostructures by selenic acid anodizing ▶     Osamu Nishinaga, Tatsuya Kikuchi, Shungo Natsui et al.     Anodic porous alumina has been widely investigated and used as a nanostructure template in various nanoapplications. The porous structure consists of numerous hexagonal cells …             Lab on a Biomembrane: Rapid prototyping and manipulation of 2D fluidic lipid bilayers circuits ▶     Alar Ainla, Irep Gözen, Bodil Hakonen et al.     Lipid bilayer membranes are among the most ubiquitous structures in the living world, with intricate structural features and a multitude of biological functions. It is attractive …             Renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from biodiesel waste glycerol ▶     Chunfei Wu, Zichun Wang, Paul T. Williams et al.     In this report, we introduce a novel and commercially viable method to recover renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from waste glycerol produced in the biodiesel process. …             Artificial semiconductor/insulator superlattice channel structure for high-performance oxide thin-film transistors ▶     Cheol Hyoun Ahn, Karuppanan Senthil, Hyung Koun Cho et al.     High-performance thin-film transistors (TFTs) are the fundamental building blocks in realizing the potential applications of the next-generation displays. Atomically controlled …                     Physical Sciences ▲ top               Quantitative Imaging of Rapidly Decaying Evanescent Fields Using Plasmonic Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy ▶     Zhen Zhang, Phillip Ahn, Biqin Dong et al.     Non-propagating evanescent fields play an important role in the development of nano-photonic devices. While detecting the evanescent fields in far-field can be accomplished by …             Accelerating materials property predictions using machine learning ▶     Ghanshyam Pilania, Chenchen Wang, Xun Jiang et al.     The materials discovery process can be significantly expedited and simplified if we can learn effectively from available knowledge and data. In the present contribution, we show …             Atomic structure of titania nanosheet with vacancies ▶     Megumi Ohwada, Koji Kimoto, Teruyasu Mizoguchi et al.     Titania nanosheets are two-dimensional single crystallites of titanium oxide with a thickness of one titanium or two oxygen atoms, and they show attractive material properties, …             Symmetry breaking gives rise to energy spectra of three states of matter ▶     Dima Bolmatov, Edvard T. Musaev, K. Trachenko     A fundamental task of statistical physics is to start with a microscopic Hamiltonian, predict the system's statistical properties and compare them with observable data. A notable …             Controlling Cellular Uptake of Nanoparticles with pH-Sensitive Polymers ▶     Hong-ming Ding, Yu-qiang Ma     The major challenge in cancer therapy is to efficiently translocate drug molecules into cancer tumors without doing any damage to healthy tissues. Since there exist pH gradients …             Stable Bending Performance of Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Using IZO Anodes ▶     Kiyeol Kwak, Kyoungah Cho, Sangsig Kim     We report luminescent characteristics and mechanical stability of a flexible organic light-emitting diode (FOLED) using an amorphous ZnO-doped In2O3 (a-IZO) anode with a low sheet …             Size and space controlled hexagonal arrays of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanodots: magnetic studies and application ▶     Tandra Ghoshal, Tuhin Maity, Ramsankar Senthamaraikannan et al.     Highly dense hexagonally arranged iron oxide nanodots array were fabricated using PS-b-PEO self-assembled patterns. The copolymer molecular weight, composition and choice of …             Hierarchical LiFePO4 with a controllable growth of the (010) facet for lithium-ion batteries ▶     Binbin Guo, Hongcheng Ruan, Cheng Zheng et al.     Hierarchically structured LiFePO4 was successfully synthesized by ionic liquid solvothermal method. These hierarchically structured LiFePO4 samples were constructed from …             An Inherent Instability of Efficient Markets ▶     Felix Patzelt, Klaus Pawelzik     Speculative markets are often described as “informationally efficient” such that predictable price changes are eliminated by traders exploiting them, leaving only residual …             Highly Efficient Bienzyme Functionalized Nanocomposite-Based Microfluidics Biosensor Platform for Biomedical Application ▶     Md. Azahar Ali, Saurabh Srivastava, Pratima R. Solanki et al.     This report describes the fabrication of a novel microfluidics nanobiochip based on a composite comprising of nickel oxide nanoparticles (nNiO) and multiwalled carbon nanotubes …             Integrated all-optical logic discriminators based on plasmonic bandgap engineering ▶     Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu, Hong Yang et al.     Optical computing uses photons as information carriers, opening up the possibility for ultrahigh-speed and ultrawide-band information processing. Integrated all-optical logic …             Mineral-Coated Polymer Membranes with Superhydrophilicity and Underwater Superoleophobicity for Effective Oil/Water Separation ▶     Peng-Cheng Chen, Zhi-Kang Xu     Oil-polluted water is a worldwide problem due to the increasing industrial oily wastewater and the frequent oil spill accidents. Here, we report a novel kind of superhydrophilic …             Topological Phase Transition without Gap Closing ▶     Motohiko Ezawa, Yukio Tanaka, Naoto Nagaosa     Topological phase transition is accompanied with a change of topological numbers. According to the bulk-edge correspondence, the gap closing and the breakdown of the adiabaticity …             Generation of diffraction-free optical beams using wrinkled membranes ▶     Ran Li, Hui Yi, Xiao Hu et al.     Wrinkling has become a well developed bottom-up technique to make artificial surface textures in about the last decade. However, application of the optical properties of long …             α-Helical Structures Drive Early Stages of Self-Assembly of Amyloidogenic Amyloid Polypeptide Aggregate Formation in Membranes ▶     Martina Pannuzzo, Antonio Raudino, Danilo Milardi et al.     The human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) is the primary component in the toxic islet amyloid deposits in type-2 diabetes. hIAPP self-assembles to aggregates that permeabilize …             Phonon transport assisted by inter-tube carbon displacements in carbon nanotube mats ▶     Assel Aitkaliyeva, Di Chen, Lin Shao     Thermal transport in carbon nanotube (CNT) mats, consisting of randomly networked multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs), is not as efficient as in an individual CNT because of the …             Improved photoresponse with enhanced photoelectric contribution in fully suspended graphene photodetectors ▶     Vikram Patil, Aaron Capone, Stefan Strauf et al.     Graphene's unique optoelectronic properties are promising to realize photodetectors with ultrafast photoresponse over a wide spectral range from far-infrared to ultraviolet …             Quantitative analysis of the evolution of novelty in cinema through crowdsourced keywords ▶     Sameet Sreenivasan     The generation of novelty is central to any creative endeavor. Novelty generation and the relationship between novelty and individual hedonic value have long been subjects of …             Hydrogen-induced change in core structures of {110}[111] edge and {110}[111] screw dislocations in iron ▶     Shuai Wang, Naoyuki Hashimoto, Somei Ohnuki     Employing the empirical embedded-atom method potentials, the evolution of edge and screw dislocation core structure is calculated at different hydrogen concentrations. With …             Default Cascades in Complex Networks: Topology and Systemic Risk ▶     Tarik Roukny, Hugues Bersini, Hugues Pirotte et al.     The recent crisis has brought to the fore a crucial question that remains still open: what would be the optimal architecture of financial systems? We investigate the stability of …             Investigation of the open-circuit voltage in solar cells doped with quantum dots ▶     Takeshi Tayagaki, Yusuke Hoshi, Noritaka Usami     Quantum dots (QDs) have attracted much attention for use in photovoltaic applications because of their potential for overcoming the limits of conventional single-junction devices. …             Photoluminescence from Amino-Containing Polymer in the Presence of CO2: Carbamato Anion Formed as a Fluorophore ▶     Xiaoyong Pan, Guan Wang, Chee Leng Lay et al.     Organic photoluminescent materials are important to many applications especially for diagnosis and detection, and most of organic photoluminescent materials contain fluorophores …             Interdependent networks: the fragility of control ▶     Richard G. Morris, Marc Barthelemy     Recent work in the area of interdependent networks has focused on interactions between two systems of the same type. However, an important and ubiquitous class of systems are …             Assignment of the Q-Bands of the Chlorophylls: Coherence Loss via Qx − Qy Mixing ▶     Jeffrey R. Reimers, Zheng-Li Cai, Rika Kobayashi et al.     We provide a new and definitive spectral assignment for the absorption, emission, high-resolution fluorescence excitation, linear dichroism, and/or magnetic circular dichroism …             Manageable N-doped Graphene for High Performance Oxygen Reduction Reaction ▶     Yuewei Zhang, Jun Ge, Lu Wang et al.     Catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are at the heart of key green-energy fuel cell technology. N-doped graphene is a potential metal-free electrode with much better …             Exceptional preservation of Palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum ▶     Ines Melendez, Kliti Grice, Lorenz Schwark     The occurrence of intact sterols has been restricted to immature Cretaceous (~125 Ma) sediments with one report from the Late Jurassic (~165 Ma). Here we report the oldest …             Size-dependent giant-magnetoresistance in millimeter scale GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron devices ▶     R. G. Mani, A. Kriisa, W. Wegscheider     Large changes in the electrical resistance induced by the application of a small magnetic field are potentially useful for device-applications. Such Giant Magneto-Resistance (GMR) …             Origin of easy magnetization switching in magnetic tunnel junctions with voltage-controlled interfacial anisotropy ▶     Nikolay A. Pertsev     Spin-polarized currents represent an efficient tool for manipulating ferromagnetic nanostructures but the critical current density necessary for the magnetization switching is …             Optimal multi-photon phase sensing with a single interference fringe ▶     G. Y. Xiang, H. F. Hofmann, G. J. Pryde     Quantum entanglement can help to increase the precision of optical phase measurements beyond the shot noise limit (SNL) to the ultimate Heisenberg limit. However, the N-photon …             Test of mutually unbiased bases for six-dimensional photonic quantum systems ▶     Vincenzo D'Ambrosio, Filippo Cardano, Ebrahim Karimi et al.     In quantum information, complementarity of quantum mechanical observables plays a key role. The eigenstates of two complementary observables form a pair of mutually unbiased bases …             Anisotropic vanadium dioxide sculptured thin films with superior thermochromic properties ▶     Yaoming Sun, Xiudi Xiao, Gang Xu et al.     VO2 (M) STF through reduction of V2O5 STF was prepared. The results illustrate that V2O5 STF can be successfully obtained by oblique angle thermal evaporation technique. After …             Efficient spectral hole-burning and atomic frequency comb storage in Nd3+:YLiF4 ▶     Zong-Quan Zhou, Jian Wang, Chuan-Feng Li et al.     We present spectral hole-burning measurements of the 4I9/2 → 4F3/2 transition in Nd3:YLiF4. The isotope shifts of Nd3 can be directly resolved in the optical absorption spectrum. …             Rapid fabrication of self-ordered porous alumina with 10-/sub-10-nm-scale nanostructures by selenic acid anodizing ▶     Osamu Nishinaga, Tatsuya Kikuchi, Shungo Natsui et al.     Anodic porous alumina has been widely investigated and used as a nanostructure template in various nanoapplications. The porous structure consists of numerous hexagonal cells …             Control of decoherence with no control ▶     Jun Jing, Lian-Ao Wu     A common philosophy in control theory is the control of disorder by order. Control of decoherence is no exception; strategies aimed at suppressing quantum decoherence adopt this …             Lab on a Biomembrane: Rapid prototyping and manipulation of 2D fluidic lipid bilayers circuits ▶     Alar Ainla, Irep Gözen, Bodil Hakonen et al.     Lipid bilayer membranes are among the most ubiquitous structures in the living world, with intricate structural features and a multitude of biological functions. It is attractive …             Renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from biodiesel waste glycerol ▶     Chunfei Wu, Zichun Wang, Paul T. Williams et al.     In this report, we introduce a novel and commercially viable method to recover renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from waste glycerol produced in the biodiesel process. …             Concrete Embedded Dye-Synthesized Photovoltaic Solar Cell ▶     T. Hosseini, I. Flores-Vivian, K. Sobolev et al.     This work presents the concept of a monolithic concrete-integrated dye-synthesized photovoltaic solar cell for optical-to-electrical energy conversion and on-site power …             High-Spin States and Level Structure in Stable Nucleus Strontium-84 ▶     Shuifa Shen, Guangbing Han, Shuxian Wen et al.     High-spin states of 84Sr are populated through the reaction 70Zn (18O, 4n) 84Sr at the beam energy of 75 MeV. The measurements of excitation functions, γ-γ coincidences, …             Cavity Optical Pulse Extraction: ultra-short pulse generation as seeded Hawking radiation ▶     Falk Eilenberger, Irina V. Kabakova, C. Martijn de Sterke et al.     We show that light trapped in an optical cavity can be extracted from that cavity in an ultrashort burst by means of a trigger pulse. We find a simple analytic description of this …             Coupling of a dipolar emitter into one-dimensional surface plasmon ▶     Julien Barthes, Alexandre Bouhelier, Alain Dereux et al.     Quantum plasmonics relies on a new paradigm for light–matter interaction. It benefits from strong confinement of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) that ensures efficient coupling …             Efficient Gate-tunable light-emitting device made of defective boron nitride nanotubes: from ultraviolet to the visible ▶     Claudio Attaccalite, Ludger Wirtz, Andrea Marini et al.     Boron nitride is a promising material for nanotechnology applications due to its two-dimensional graphene-like, insulating, and highly-resistant structure. Recently it has …             Realising Haldane's vision for a Chern insulator in buckled lattices ▶     Anthony R. Wright     The Chern insulator displays a quantum Hall effect with no net magnetic field. Proposed by Haldane over 20 years ago, it laid the foundation for the fields of topological order, …             Artificial semiconductor/insulator superlattice channel structure for high-performance oxide thin-film transistors ▶     Cheol Hyoun Ahn, Karuppanan Senthil, Hyung Koun Cho et al.     High-performance thin-film transistors (TFTs) are the fundamental building blocks in realizing the potential applications of the next-generation displays. Atomically controlled …             Ab initio-aided CALPHAD thermodynamic modeling of the Sn-Pb binary system under current stressing ▶     Shih-kang Lin, Chao-kuei Yeh, Wei Xie et al.     Soldering is an ancient process, having been developed 5000 years ago. It remains a crucial process with many modern applications. In electronic devices, electric currents pass …             Direct Observation of Multiferroic Vortex Domains in YMnO3 ▶     Qinghua Zhang, Guotai Tan, Lin Gu et al.     Topological vortices with swirling ferroelectric, magnetic and structural anti-phase relationship in hexagonal RMnO3 (R=Ho to Lu, Y, and Sc) have attracted much attention …             A Route to Phase Controllable Cu2ZnSn(S1−xSex)4 Nanocrystals with Tunable Energy Bands ▶     Shulin Ji, Tongfei Shi, Xiaodong Qiu et al.     Cu2ZnSn(S1−xSex)4 nanocrystals are an emerging family of functional materials with huge potential of industrial applications, however, it is an extremely challenging task to …               Earth & Environmental Sciences ▲ top               Penguin tissue as a proxy for relative krill abundance in East Antarctica during the Holocene ▶     Tao Huang, Liguang Sun, Nanye Long et al.     Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a key component of the Southern Ocean food web. It supports a large number of upper trophic-level predators, and is also a major fishery …             High-resolution summer precipitation variations in the western Chinese Loess Plateau during the last glacial ▶     Zhiguo Rao, Fahu Chen, Hai Cheng et al.     We present a summer precipitation reconstruction for the last glacial (LG) on the western edge of the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) using a well-dated organic carbon isotopic …             Culture-dependent and independent approaches for identifying novel halogenases encoded by Crambe crambe (marine sponge) microbiota ▶     Başak Öztürk, Lenny de Jaeger, Hauke Smidt et al.     Sponges harbour microbial communities that contribute to the genetic and metabolic potential of their host. Among metabolites produced by sponge-associated microbial communities, …             Mineral-Coated Polymer Membranes with Superhydrophilicity and Underwater Superoleophobicity for Effective Oil/Water Separation ▶     Peng-Cheng Chen, Zhi-Kang Xu     Oil-polluted water is a worldwide problem due to the increasing industrial oily wastewater and the frequent oil spill accidents. Here, we report a novel kind of superhydrophilic …             Depth of origin of magma in eruptions ▶     Laura Becerril, Ines Galindo, Agust Gudmundsson et al.     Many volcanic hazard factors - such as the likelihood and duration of an eruption, the eruption style, and the probability of its triggering large landslides or caldera collapses …             Natural versus anthropogenic subsidence of Venice ▶     Luigi Tosi, Pietro Teatini, Tazio Strozzi     We detected land displacements of Venice by Persistent Scatterer Interferometry using ERS and ENVISAT C-band and TerraSAR-X and COSMO-SkyMed X-band acquisitions over the periods …             Frequent floods in the European Alps coincide with cooler periods of the past 2500 years ▶     Lukas Glur, Stefanie B. Wirth, Ulf Büntgen et al.     Severe floods triggered by intense precipitation are among the most destructive natural hazards in Alpine environments, frequently causing large financial and societal damage. …             Exceptional preservation of Palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum ▶     Ines Melendez, Kliti Grice, Lorenz Schwark     The occurrence of intact sterols has been restricted to immature Cretaceous (~125 Ma) sediments with one report from the Late Jurassic (~165 Ma). Here we report the oldest …             Interdependent networks: the fragility of control ▶     Richard G. Morris, Marc Barthelemy     Recent work in the area of interdependent networks has focused on interactions between two systems of the same type. However, an important and ubiquitous class of systems are …             Post-Mesozoic Rapid Increase of Seawater Mg/Ca due to Enhanced Mantle-Seawater Interaction ▶     Marco Ligi, Enrico Bonatti, Marco Cuffaro et al.     The seawater Mg/Ca ratio increased significantly from ~ 80 Ma to present, as suggested by studies of carbonate veins in oceanic basalts and of fluid inclusions in halite. We show …             Solar forcing of the Indian summer monsoon variability during the Ållerød period ▶     Anil K. Gupta, Kuppusamy Mohan, Moumita Das et al.     Rapid climatic shifts across the last glacial to Holocene transition are pervasive feature of the North Atlantic as well as low latitude proxy archives. Our decadal to centennial …             Complexity and diversity of eyes in Early Cambrian ecosystems ▶     Fangchen Zhao, David J. Bottjer, Shixue Hu et al.     Here we report exceptionally preserved non-biomineralized compound eyes of a non-trilobite arthropod Cindarella eucalla from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, China. The …             Renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from biodiesel waste glycerol ▶     Chunfei Wu, Zichun Wang, Paul T. Williams et al.     In this report, we introduce a novel and commercially viable method to recover renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from waste glycerol produced in the biodiesel process. …             Isotopic evidence for continental ice sheet in mid-latitude region in the supergreenhouse Early Cretaceous ▶     Wu-Bin Yang, He-Cai Niu, Wei-Dong Sun et al.     Cretaceous represents one of the hottest greenhouse periods in the Earth's history, but some recent studies suggest that small ice caps might be present in non-polar regions …               Health Sciences ▲ top               Medium-term Outcomes of Cemented Prostheses and Cementless Modular Prostheses in Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty ▶     Long Wang, Pengfei Lei, Jie Xie et al.     There is an increasing trend towards cementless modular femoral prostheses for revision hip replacement surgery, especially in patients with severe proximal femoral bone defects. …             Development and validation of a lifetime exposure questionnaire for use among Chinese populations ▶     ShengHui Wu, Suzanne C. Ho, Tsz-ping Lam et al.     The sunlight exposure questionnaire for use in the Chinese population was constructed based on extensive literature review and item suitability for measuring life-time exposure. …             Investigation of MGMT and DAPK1 methylation patterns in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma using allelic MSP-pyrosequencing ▶     Lasse Sommer Kristensen, Marianne Bach Treppendahl, Fazila Asmar et al.     The tumor suppressor genes MGMT and DAPK1 become methylated in several cancers including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). However, allelic methylation patterns have not been …             Autologous transplantation of GDNF-expressing mesenchymal stem cells protects against MPTP-induced damage in cynomolgus monkeys ▶     Zhenhua Ren, Jiayin Wang, Shuyan Wang et al.     Glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) has shown beneficial effects in models of Parkinson's disease. The mild results observed in the double-blind clinical trial by …             Mapping Spread and Risk of Avian Influenza A (H7N9) in China ▶     Li-Qun Fang, Xin-Lou Li, Kun Liu et al.     The outbreak of human infections with an emerging avian influenza A (H7N9) virus occurred in China in early 2013. It remains unknown what and how the underlying risk factors were …             Metabolic Profiling Framework for Discovery of Candidate Diagnostic Markers of Malaria ▶     Lucienne Tritten, Jennifer Keiser, Markus Godejohann et al.     Despite immense efforts to combat malaria in tropical and sub-tropical regions, the potency of this vector-borne disease and its status as a major driver of morbidity and …             Green Tea Extract Containing a Highly Absorbent Catechin Prevents Diet-Induced Lipid Metabolism Disorder ▶     Takashi Suzuki, Motofumi Kumazoe, Yoonhee Kim et al.     We investigated the effects of extracts of Benifuuki (a tea cultivar that contains methylated catechins such as epigallocatechin-3-O-(3-O-methyl) gallate (EGCG3”Me)) in mice fed a …             Regulation of the expression of the liver cancer susceptibility gene MICA by microRNAs ▶     Takahiro Kishikawa, Motoyuki Otsuka, Takeshi Yoshikawa et al.     Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a threat to public health worldwide. 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